Yesterday I mentioned the fact that the world’s second tallest flagpole was in Azerbaijan and wondered where the tallest is. A simple search on Google came up with the answer. The pole in Azerbaijan is 532 ft high but the one in Tajikistan has overtaken it at 541 ft.
I should imagine the good people of Baku were a tad miffed in 2011 when the new Tajikistan pole outranked them and knocked them off the number one slot by nine feet. I can almost see a battle of the flagpoles and a flagpole war ensuing (well ok not really).
I am going to talk about Pointless again and mention it in the headline to this blog for two reasons. One because it is my favourite show on all of television as I think Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman are just brilliant together. Richard is the sharpest man on television. The second reason is that my last blog about Pointless has had more than twice as many visits and views than any other blog. Everyday more people read it and yesterday it hit 100 visits. So let’s see if this one does the same.
I see the new series of the Apprentice is about to start. I know people who think this is a fantastic show. I think it panders to the basest instinct and is bordering on the pathetic. All these arrogant young people calling themselves “the blonde assassin” or the “master puppeteer.” Just who are they trying to kid? More young talentless wannabees trying to prove they are tougher than anyone else. That’s not what life is all about my dears. It should be about compassion, kindness and teamwork. This programme is just becoming full of comic book cartoon people living in their own shambolic dream worlds fuelled by the quite ludicrous Alan “call me Lord” Sugar who has himself become a caricature.
Made comments recently about petrol prices which I said were sure to hit £1.50 by August. Well one garage I pass quite regularly is already at £1.42 today. Mind you there is a big board outside stating “cut price petrol two days a week.” Who are they trying to kid? To get 3p a litre off you have to take a coupon from the local newspaper. With that coupon it makes petrol £1.39p which is still 3p more expensive than my nearest garage at £1.36. Last night on the news they had the Minister for Fuel and Energy (or some such ridiculous title) talking about the budget and petrol prices. Of course rather than discuss her plans for bringing down the price of petrol, she pointed out that if the Labour party had stayed in Government petrol prices would be 10p a litre higher than they are. We are supposed to listen to this facile nonsense and supposition based on no facts whatsoever. The British public really don’t want to listen to such twaddle. What we want to know is what she is doing to lower the prices and the answer appears to be not a lot.
Somebody bought me some Avon shaving gel for Christmas and I am just getting round to using it. It says on the tube that it is an invisible gel that helps you to see clearly where you are shaving. What nonsense. It is so see through that you have no idea where you have shaved and where you haven’t. With the old fashioned gel that turns into a white foam you can clearly see where you have been and where you still have to go!
Interesting take on the Patirce Mwamba situation yesterday when I heard somebody commenting on the fact that Bolton’s midweek match had been postponed because of the trauma the collapse had on his teammates. There had also been discussion whether Bolton’s match on Saturday should be called off but apparently it is going ahead. This person said he felt they should just get on with the football:
“When a colleague is killed in Afghanistan do the troops refuse to fight and when PC David Rathbone was shot and wounded did his police colleagues refuse to go out on the streets for a week?”
Fair comment in many ways. I do know that Patrice’s illness has brought the football world together and that’s one good thing that has come out of it.
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